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In the evening I went over to the ranch of our nearest neighbor, Mr. P. Anker, who has been here for 30 years, and has a ranch of 620 acres, mostly in Alfalfa. He [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] estimates his loss this year by the mice at 600 tons of alfalfa, or about $5000. Last year he cut 2500 tons of hay and this year only 1200 tons, but he attributes part of the shortage to the cold, late spring. He thinks the loss next year will be far greater than this from the damage already done. He is plowing up some of his best fields of alfalfa and will put in grain next year and if the mice have left will seed to alfalfa later.

His potato patch was nearly ruined by the mice and where he should have had 6 tons of good potatoes he gathered about a ton of damaged potatoes.

Knowing Mr. Anker to be an old resident and a very reliable man I went over especially to ask him if such an invasion of mice had

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Reviewed. Made one correction to a typo. -@siobhanleachman added one missing letter -@meg_shuler